by Lisa Marlin | Oct 28, 2018 | Blog, My Journey, Writing
Ironically, it’s easy to write about why it’s hard to write. It only took me three weeks, a few hundred revisions, and two pounds of M&M’s to create this list. 1-2) It’s hard to write when it is cold inside and hot outside or vice versa....
by Lisa Marlin | Jun 18, 2018 | AustinVideo, Blog, My Journey, Parenting, Writing
My son Austin Alexander performed his original song “A Recipe for Love” during the book signing for my story in “Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Miracle of Love” at Barnes & Noble on June 16, 2018. Click on the arrow above to watch. The story...
by Lisa Marlin | Apr 4, 2018 | Blog, Writing
It’s a good thing that the woman in seat 8A listened to her neighbor back home and brought wet wipes in her carry-on. “You just never know when you might need them,” her neighbor had advised her. And as luck would have it, she did need them when the passenger in...
by Lisa Marlin | Dec 31, 2016 | Blog, Middle Age, Writing
Dear December 31, 2017 Me, What can I say that you don’t already know? You are at the end of a year that I can only dream about. You have experienced events that I have no idea will end up on the calendar. They are secrets to me now as they should be. If 2015 Me had...
by Lisa Marlin | Jul 31, 2016 | Blog, Middle Age, Parenting, Writing
This lopsided life of mine all began while I was living my childhood dream and I looked in the mirror one night and saw the face of a woman I didn’t recognize. Her lips couldn’t form a smile and her right eye wouldn’t close. Later in the emergency room, I first...
by Lisa Marlin | Apr 14, 2016 | Blog, Writing
Charles Dickens made them famous, Erma Bombeck made them funny, and I made them a summary of my experience at the 2016 Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop in Dayton, Ohio, March 31-April 2. I’m referring to six simple words Dickens wrote in 1859 with quill in hand to begin...